23.11.12
Synthesis Report of the Baseline Study on Civilian Capacity
A CIVCAP Network Joint Research Project
NUPI-rapport | Oslo, NUPI | 48 sider
The CIVCAP Network countries (Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Russia, South Africa and Turkey) have been tracking the CIVCAP process and have been actively engaged in consultations at the UN and regional levels. Each of these countries approaches CIVCAP from a slightly different perspective and each has varying interests and ambitions.
With basis in country case studies this report presents ten general findings or observations which can feed into discussions among CIVCAP Network countries about key issues that they could monitor, or engage with as the Network continues its work in cooperation with governments and the UN in support of the CIVCAP initiative.
>> Summary
The baseline observations from this study are as follows:
1. There is a good level of general support for CIVCAP among the partners.
2. CIVCAP needs to move quickly from the theoretical to the practical.
3. The UN CIVCAP concept is not sufficiently broad to capture the CIVCAP-related
activities of the countries studied.
4. Countries are likely to prefer an ‘on request’ model to engaging with the UN CIVCAP
initiative, until mechanisms for government-provided personnel have been clearly articulated.
5. Bilateral assistance is likely to remain the predominant approach.
6. The CIVCAP community is small, and strong formal as well as informal networks are
needed, internationally and domestically.
7. The need for strengthened coordination and deployment support systems is recognized,
but technocratic tools for managing larger scales of civilian capacity deployment are not
yet a high priority.
8. New funding for encouraging CIVCAP through multilateral institutions could generate
support from smaller countries with limited financial resources, but not from the
larger players.
9. Trilateral cooperation arrangements are potentially important mechanisms for building
CIVCAP relationships, but are ad hoc.
10. Regional organizations are not yet playing a significant role in CIVCAP, although the African
Union has already embarked on a process to make greater use of CIVCAP in future
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